{"id":1905320,"date":"2023-03-27T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-ro-khanna-announces-he-wont-seek-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:17:54","slug":"house-democrat-ro-khanna-announces-he-wont-seek-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-ro-khanna-announces-he-wont-seek-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat Ro Khanna Announces He Won\u2019t Seek Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrat-ro-khanna-announces-he-wont-seek-senate-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1905320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0327\/0b060073-f661-4d4f-98c2-e2d04d80fd8e\/audio.mp3?length=3460077&#038;duration=288\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) announced Sunday that he won\u2019t run for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Dianne Feinstein. Instead, he will endorse fellow Rep. Barbara Lee and will co-chair her campaign to be California\u2019s new senator.<\/p>\n<p>Khanna made his announcement on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d saying that the House was \u201cthe best place\u201d for him to advance progressive policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have concluded that despite a lot of enthusiasm from Bernie [Sanders\u2019] folks, the best place, the most exciting place, action place, fit place for me to serve as a progressive is in the House of Representatives,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992, announced in February that she will not seek reelection in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Before Feinstein announced her retirement, Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) announced in January that she would challenge Feinstein for her seat in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after Porter\u2019s announcement, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced his bid for Feinstein\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 21, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) joined the 2024 Senate race, announcing her bid to succeed Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"morearticles\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_list\">\n<div class=\"article\">ANALYSIS: Lee\u2019s Senate Run Shows Major Divide in California Democrat Party<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Khanna told CNN that he is endorsing Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to be co-chairing Barbara Lee\u2019s campaign for the Senate and endorsing her today,\u201d Khanna said. \u201cWe need a strong anti-war senator, and she will play that role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he didn\u2019t endorse Porter or Schiff, Khanna said he had respect for both of them, but that Lee \u201cis a unique voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the lone vote against the endless war in Afghanistan. She stood up so strongly against the war in Iraq. She worked with me in stopping\u2014trying to stop the war in Yemen, and the War Powers Resolution,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentation matters,\u201d Khanna continued. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a single African-American woman in the United States Senate. She would fill that role. She will be the only candidate from Northern California, and she\u2019s going to, I think, consolidate a lot of progressives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other two are formidable candidates, but I think Barbara Lee is going to be very, very strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday evening, Lee took to Twitter to thank Khanna for his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight everyday to push our shared progressive agenda of Medicare4All, ending student debt, and abolishing the filibuster,\u201d Lee added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5151419\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Dec. 8, 2021. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><b>Poll<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Schiff and Porter were front runners in the Senate race, according to a recent poll by the University of California Berkeley\u2019s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS). The poll was conducted between Feb. 14 and Feb. 20\u2014before Lee officially announced her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>The poll showed Schiff leading with 22 percent, followed by Porter with 20 percent. The then prospective candidate Lee was a distant third with 6 percent of support, with Khanna in fourth place at 4 percent. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-way race excluding Khanna, Schiff still came out on top with 23 percent of support, followed by Porter at 20 percent and Lee at 8 percent. Thirty-nine percent of persons polled said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>7,512 California registered voters were polled, of whom 5,681 were registered Democrats or voters that did not express a party preference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results give good reason to expect a relatively wide-open race. Since so many voters are unfamiliar with the candidates, there is much potential for movement,\u201d said IGS Co-Director Eric Schickler about the poll results. \u201cIt will likely be several months before most voters tune into the race, and a key challenge for each candidate will be to build a statewide following.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll also found an age divide, with Schiff leading Porter among respondents aged 50 and older, and Porter leading Schiff among those aged 39 and younger. Respondents between 40 and 49 were closely divided between Schiff (17 percent) and Porter (21 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Under California\u2019s primary rules, all candidates run on the same ballot regardless of the party they represent, and the top two vote-getters advance to the general election\u2014meaning that it is possible that two Democrats would run against each other for Feinstein\u2019s seat in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, two Democrats\u2014Feinstein and Kevin de Le\u00f3n\u2014ran against each other in the state\u2019s Senate race. De Le\u00f3n is currently a member of Los Angeles City Council.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) announced Sunday that he won\u2019t run for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Dianne Feinstein. Instead, he will endorse fellow Rep. Barbara Lee and will co-chair her campaign to be California\u2019s new senator. Khanna made his announcement on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d saying that the House was \u201cthe best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":1905321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4156,4912,3653,12748,5839,4165,3740,4324],"class_list":["post-1905320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-announces","tag-democrat","tag-house","tag-khanna","tag-seat","tag-seek","tag-senate","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}